Thread by @tristwolff

With #midjourney V4 supporting aspect ratios up to "2:1", here's how you can use them effectively in your #AICinema storytelling. 🎥🔥

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Besides being technical requirements for screen sizes, ratios can also be used to create an aesthetic backdrop for your stories. 🎬

E.g. 4:3 (or "1.33:1" in cinema slang) is the "classic ratio" of TV monitors & perfect for scenes that are meant to evoke an "analog TV" vibe

"11:8" ("1.375:1" in cinema slang) also called "Academy ratio" is a standard introduced in 1932.

It's outdated, but still in use as an aesthetic tool. E.g. Wes Anderson used it to differentiate timelines in "Grand Budapest Hotel":

Here's an "11:8" image put on a "16:9" screen. Perfect for flashbacks (not only to the 30s) and #AIArt

Prompt: "film still, astronaut in the desert, style by 1930s sci-fi movie, 8k --ar 11:8"

16:9 aka Standard Widescreen, most people nowadays are very well conditioned to experience 16:9 as a “cinematic format”.

Prompt: "film still, astronaut in the desert --ar 16:9"

1.85:1 aka The US Widescreen Cinema Standard
Hollywood's 1950s invention to combat home TV with the “1.85:1” film experience.

Midjourney only allows integer values for ratios, so instead of “1.85:1” we can use “37:20” or “185:100”.

Has a slightly more cinematic vibe than 16:9.

"14:9" is mainly used to broadcast widescreen material (e.g. 16:9) to analog TV screens (4:3).

Try projecting "14:9" on a "4:3" for a cozy cinematic TV vibe.

Also a nice passe-partout effect for #AIArtwork #aiartcommunity

Midjourney's current max ratio of "2:1" is actually a proposal for a new universal standard for cinema & digital media by Italian cinematographer Vittorio Storaro.

("2:1" approx. the mathematical average of cinema widescreen "2.2:1" and TV widescreen "16:9")

🎥🎬 Note that there's this convention among film people to set "1" as the value for the height of an image. So you will see stuff like "1.85" as aspect ratio, short for "1.85:1"... equivalent to 37:20. 🤷‍♂️

Some pretty cool widescreen ratios are not supported by #MidjourneyV4 yet, e.g. "2.2:1" cinema widescreen or "2.39:1" Bollywood movie standard etc.

Here's hope it will be added in the future. Meanwhile, V3 does render Bollywood style 😊💃

I am putting together a couple of tutorials about #midjourney & #cinematography over at @Medium, would be happy if you check them out and let me know if they're helpful! 🙏

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